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Re: Do you know this instrument ?
From: David Pike
Date: 2024 Oct 28, 07:47 -0700
From: David Pike
Date: 2024 Oct 28, 07:47 -0700
1. Very rare (now discontinued) 'Airfix' Plastic Sextant Kit.
2. Artificial Intelligence's solution to a sextant for the Southern Hemisphere.
3. An Arts Student's final exhibition piece.
4. Hard to tell what's connected to what, but the non regular scale looks interesting. If the item on the far side is a backwards facing mirror directly conected to the top front mirror, then it could be an Annapolis student's attempt at a precise height of eye meter in order to calculate dip very accurately. I'm currently scratching away on the back of today's letter delivery envelopes. It's just getting the lines in the diagram right like answering sextant proof questions in a science exam. DaveP
